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Really good for a solid understanding of basic Ruby programming. I highly recommend everything up to Chapter 9 or 10. If you are new to programming in it's entirety, I don't think he does a great job explaining what lambdas or procs are and why they're useful. It's kind of a weird concept to wrap your head around. But everything else was very well written and the exercises were easy to understand and helped build the fundamentals.

Learn to Program is a great book. A solid foundation in Ruby. Thanks Chris!

Good and enjoyable.

A succinct introduction to ruby, it is only fair that thia review follows suit.

An excellent introduction to programming, through Ruby. It's concise, so you have to unpack concepts, but he does a great job of introducing things and covering related ground, while sticking to a single topic at a time.

This was a good introduction to the Ruby programming language. The examples in this book are funny and keep the reader engaged.

Imparare Ruby a 50 anni, perché no?

I initially loved this when I first discovered it. It seemed like a gentle and carefully crafted introduction to programming with Ruby. The examples were thoughtfully done, if sometimes a little humorously silly, and the text surrounding them carefully transitioned from concept to concept.

So I decided to use it to teach a class of new programming students. Their reactions were quite a bit more mixed. Most couldn't handle actually reading all the text, not necessarily a fault of the book itself, but it was a problem for its use in the class. A bigger issue though was the way that the Ruby code is taught and written (and this is perhaps more of an issue for the very flexible Ruby language). The book examples are written in a very easy to read sort of way, but it is somewhat different than what is often found in code I've bumped into professionally and other examples and discussion online. For me, this wasn't a big issue, I know many languages and styles of languages and am comfortable flowing from one to another. For my students, though this was a big issue.

The main issue with this is with method parameters. The book doesn't use parenthesis around them, which is often fine, unless you're trying to combine multiple statements on a single line.

my_method param1, param2
vs
my_method(param1, param2)

Both are fine on their own, but start trying to show results of methods with puts and you can start running into trouble. Just adding puts is fine, but then if you try to "pretty" up the messages or convert numbers to strings, it's not so fine. Easy answer is to then do that on multiple lines, sure... but then you've got the students looking things up online saying no, just do it this way, and then confusion begins to set in. Why not just teach them to use the parenthesis in the first place? (as several of my students asked me)

Unfortunately, this was such a big issue for syntax errors in the class, that I've decided that I can't use this again. Does it make it a bad book, no not necessarily. I still think it explains things very well. However I really wish the code were just a little bit more in line with what I think of as standard rather than trying to be English readable. For me, that prevents it from serving the purpose I need it to serve. My students are adults, and perhaps a younger audience might be more inclined to learn from the book (vs many sources) and not find this as problematic.

A good first book to learn programming with.

Rather lazily written intro to programming through ruby. Bizarre examples and sample code that one gets bored of sorting through.

Beginners won't find it very difficult, but there isn't enough time spent on flow control or classes or basic OOP concepts for it to be that useful.

A fun introduction to programming with ruby. The book offers clear and concise explanations sprinkled with good humor.